Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. i Daily Grist of Local Happen*! inars Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Thos. Daily, the Sharon merchant, is quite sick. Miss Mary Goetz is visiting friends at Logansport. Mrs. John Brown of Sharon, is getting better after a severe illness. Miss Edna Dillion, after a weeks visit with friends in Delphi’ returned home this morning. Chas. Gray is steadily getting weaker, and is now troubled by a severe stomach inflamationMrs. M. J. Cole who has been visiting Mrs. J. P. Warner has returned to her home in Lafayette. Mrs. Elmer Harrington of Virigie, has returned to that place after a short visit with Mrs. David Hilton. * Mrs. M. T. Corwin returned to home in Indpendence, to-day, after a few week.s visit with Mrs. A. Laßue, Miss Maud Healey returned home yesterday after a two month’s visit with relatives in Brookston and Delphi. Mrs. Henry Goff was called to Fair Oaks yeterday by the death of a two year child of Mr. and Mrs. George Hurley. Mis. Ed Parr and child, and Mrs. A. McKenzie went to Monticello. yesterday where they intend to live, until winter at least. Mosaline Roberts gave a party’ yesterday to about twenty of her friends. They had much fun, refreshments and departed to their homes. Ray Osborne after a weeks visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Osborne, and friends, returned to his home at Whitehall, Mich., today. Uncle Simon Phillips has gone on his annual visit to his twin uncles, at Greenville, Ind. The twins will be 94 years old the last of this month. W. C. Williams, of South Bend, is* in town today, looking for a good location for a bakery. If the outlook is promising he intends to start one at once. Rev. D. A. Tucker has gone, today, to Millington, Mich., at the invitation of the F. W. Baptist congregation there. He will preach for them Sunday, and perhaps remain several weeks. Miss Mary Washburn, after a weeks visit with her parents returned to her home at Chicago yesterday afternoon accompanied by her sister, Miss Lena Washburn, for an extended visit. A surprise party was held at the home of Mrs. Ada Yates last evening by about thirty ladies of the Relief Corps. The hostess was presented with several beautiful boquets. Mrs. Lacy Gwin and children returned to their home in Marshfield, Wis,. to-day, after a few week’s visit with her father-in-law J. C. Gwin and family. Mr. and Mrs. Gwin accompanied them as far as Chicago. Mrs. I. N. Warren and son and' her sister, Miss Maud Irwin,. left 1 for Laporte this morning where they will join Mr. Warren, who is I to be high school principal in the' Laporte city schools this winter. Miss Irwin will remain all winter and attend business college at that place. The funeral of a nine year old son of John Borem, on the Wm. Cooper farm, in Union Tp., was held yesterday. It was held at the residence and conducted by Rev. D. A. Tucker, of Rensselaer. The cause of the boy’s death was stat-” ed to have been a tumor dr other like growth, on one of the intes-

tines. Interment was at Prater cemetery. The second-game with the Hyde Park base ball club is in progress as we go to press. If it is a duplicate of yesterday’s game it will be, in the parlance of the sportive youth, “a peach.” The Hyde Park team is an extra good one, and they held our own superior aggregation down to a very small score yesterday, and as some of their best players who were missing yesterday are with them today, our people should not be greatly disappointed if today’s game goes to Hyde Park. But with the true lover of good sport for sport’s sake, and not for the betting’s or the beating’s sake, the pleasure of losing in a good game of ball, should be next only to the pleasure of winning in one. And especially in a game with such a gentlemanly and genial set of young men as the Hyde Park boys unquestionably are. And in these last respects as well as in abilities as players, the clubs are well matched, and we can safely say that when the Hyde Park boys return home they will all unite in saying that they never played with a more gentlemanly club or among a more hospitable and fair minded people, than they have found at Rensselaer.

SATURDAY. Nat Henson, and Miss Simons are visiting relatives at Grant Park. Mel Larue and little son have returned from a short visit at Earl Park. Mrs. Henry Pierson is visiting her mother, who is quite sick, at Battle Ground. Miss Laura Warr returned to Brook, yesterday, after a week’s visit here with friends. Mr. arid Mrs. Jared Martindale returned fr«m a short visit at Dunnville, this morning. Rev. W. H. Sayler was called to Portland, Ind., today, to fill the pulpit in the Baptist church tomorrow at that place. H. B. Sullivan, who graduated with the class of ’96 at St. Joseph’s college, returned to his home in Lafayette, today, after a short visit at the college. Charley Gray has been very low for two or three days past, and at present it seems hardly possible that he can last more than a day or two, at most. County Clerk Coover is at Remington and will remain over Sunday. His experienced deputy, Miss Bertha Parcells, manages the clerk’s office in his absence. A six year old daughter Wm. of Gratner, of Barkley Tp., fell off a fence, a few days ago, and dislocated her elbow. Dr. Alter was called and reduced the dislocation. * Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Chapman arrived home last evening, from a two week’s visit to the former’s parents, at Bridgeman, Mich., and at some of Michigan’s summer resorts. Mrs. Ora Ross gave one of her delightful dances last evening at her spacious home on River street. About 20 couples were present and enjoyed a very pleasant evening. Dainty refreshments were served at twelve, but the dancing continued until one o’clock. Hon. I. D. Dunn of Dunnville was here Tuesday between trains. He reports as fine a patch of sugar beets as ever grew in any climate and is certain that the fertile Kankakee valley has a great future in store for it. The oat crop on Mr. Dunn’s farm this year averaged over 50 bushels to the acre.—North Judson News. The elocutionary, musical and Delsarte entertainment, given by Miss Minnie Reitz, at the opera house last evening, under the auspices of the ladies of the M. E. church, is pronounced by competent critics, to have been one of the very best entertainments of the kind ever given in this place. The attendance was far below what the merits of the affair entitled it to; and, far less than it

will be should i ever ’be repeated here. County Surveyor Alter’s remarkable collection of geolgical, zoological and ethnological specimens at his office in the court house, has just been increased by a fine stone ax. It is a very large one, weighing over five pounds, and is very perfect and workmanlike in construction It was found by John Smith, of near Blackford, and by him loaned to Logan Wood, of Parr, who, in turn, has loaned it to the Surveyor’s collection. The ax is quite the best of its kind we ever saw in this county, except one found about six years ago by Mr. Aldrich, in Carpenter township. The collection of Indian tools and weapons, at the state house at Indianapolis is said to have no finer stone ax than this one. It is reported here, but we can not say how reliably, that Frank Siers, until lately a resident of Rensselaer, died Wednesday, at Danville, 111., .of cancer of the stomach. It is also reported that Mr. Day, father of Hiram and Lewis Day, died on the same day, at Tolono, 111. Siers was a broth-er-in-law of Lewis - Day; so if both these deaths occurred as reported, Lewis Day lost both father and brother-in-law the same day. Later: Since the above was in type, we learn that Mr. Sears undewent an operation on Thursday of week, and died last Wednesday as reported. His sister of this place, Mrs. Portwood, went to Danville to the funexal.

MONDAY, L. H. Hamilton’s little daughter is quite sick. Perry Gwin is spending a week with his sister at Monon. Charley Sigler of Crown Point, is visiting his uncle G. W. Goff. Glen Grant and Louie Fendig spent Sunday in Chicago and Milwaukee. Misses Lenna Grant and Lora Rhoades visited Monticello friends over Sunday. Alt Padgett has some of the stock farm horses at Hoopeston, 111., this week. E. L. Hollingsworth has gone to Charlevoix to spend a few dayswith his family at that place. J. N. Flynn is visiting his brother, Chas., who is very low with consumption, at Morristown. Miss Bessie Eger has returned home after a two weeks visit with friends and relatives at Lafayette. Mrs. Barnes Haskett, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. H. S. Ellis, has returned to her home in Chicago. Misses Jessie and Rae Coen, of Attica, who have been visiting their aunt, Mrs. J. F. Watson, returned home today. Father Romer of Delphi Catholic church, who has been the guest of Rev. Jacob, • returned home Saturday afternoon. Judge Thompson has gone to Fowler to preside at the August* term of the Benton circuit court, which begins to-day, Mrs. W. J. Imesand Mrs. Amanda Lewis drove to the latter’s home at Oxford, yesterday. Mrs. lines will drive back alone, today. . Miss Edith Whitqpack, one of the most popular instructors in the state normal, at Terre Haute, is the guest of her friend, Miss Pearl Wasson. Homer Babcock, who has been spending a two week’s vacation at Omaha, Neb., and Hutchison, Kan., arrived home last Saturday evening. F. W. Mauck and wife and his son, David Mauck and wife and child, are spending several weeks visiting at Indianapolis, Kokomo and Franklin. Firman Thompson and Park Kelley, two of our very youthful nimrods, are spending the week hunting, on Judge Thompson’s farm near Parr. The Misses Bernice and Eva Brown, who have been spending sevefal weeks with their uncle, G.

W. Goff, have returned to their home in Crown Point. Mrs. Nellie Hauxhust and Lawrence Field of Battle Creek, are visiting Mrs. Delos Thompson for a few weeks. Mrs. Hauxhust is Mrs. Thompson’s sister. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Austin have gone on a short trip to Lafayette and Indianapolis, while at Indianapolis they will take in part of the K. of P. encampment. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Kessinger have gone to Lafayette, today, to attend the funeral of a brother-in-law. From there they will go on a visit to Shelby county, Ohio. Mrs. Fannie Teagarden, of Houston, Texas, and Mrs. Chas. Jouvenat, of Chicago, who have been visiting their sisters, Mrs. Lottie George and Miss Libbie Walton, returned to their homes today. Pete Brenner has gone to Lebanon, to-day, to accept a place in large drug store there. He has a a fine situation there and is well qualified to fiH it. T. J. McCoy and Delos Thompson, and the others of their party, arrived home Sunday, from their hunting trip in South Dakota. They had good luck killing about 500 chickens and ducks. 'Hiram Day, the sub-contractor, having returned from Illinois, the work on the court house cement walks was resumed this morning, with full vigor. The walks will be completed in a short time, now. Mrs. James Yeoman and her two little boys, of Topeka, Kans., arrived Saturday and are visiting Mrs. Mattie Grant. Mrs. Yeoman, whose maiden name was Israel, formerly lived in this county, but this is her first visit for 12 years. Mrs. J. E. Hopkins and her sister, Miss Jessie Lang went to Indianapolis Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Hopkins will visit for a a couple of weeks with relatives before returning home; but Miss Lang intends to remain all the fall and learn the millinery trade. Rev. Gottleib Bauer and Miss Elizabeth Walter, to whom* a marriage license was issued here, Friday, will be marrid at Goodland, on Wednesday. The groom is pastor of the Lutheran church, at Goodland. The bride lives in the west part of Carpenter tp. this county. Jeff Smith, a few miles west of town, has this season made his debut as a raiser of melons for the Rensselaer market. He strikes town with a wagon load every once in a while, and for a beginner at the business it must be admitted that he is producing some mighty fine melonsMr. and Mrs. Hiram Day returned from their visit to Tolono, 111., Saturday evening. Mr. Day’s father, whose alarming sickness called them there, was very much better. He had a stroke of paralysis, but had recovered from its effects except that his right arm is permanently paralyzed.

Mr. James T. Randle, son of Nelson Randle, and Miss Blanche Thomas, daughter of Mrs. Ada Thomas, were married at 5 p. m. Sunday, at the residence of the bride’s mother, in the east part of town. Only a few relatives and special friends were present. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. L. Brady. W. J. Imes arrived home from his New York visit, Sunday. He thinks some of returning there and engaging in business with his brothers-in-law, Zimji, John and Robert Paris. They are extensively engaged in building, selling and leasing residences, at Yonkers, a large suburb, 15 miles from New York city. They have already , built 35 fine residences there. Mr. Imes has not fully decided whether he will return there or not. What came very near being quite a destructive fire, Saturday morning, in S. G. Henderson’s house in Austin & Paxton’s addition, was luckily discovered and put out before much damage was done. Mr. Henderson had shortly before left the house after building a fire in the cook stove, and in some manner sparks fell from the pipe into a sofa below. The sofa quickly took fire, and it with a wash stand were destroyed, the smoke from these rolliug out of a window, was seen by some of the neighbors,, who by hard work soon had the fire out. Williamsport has just contracted for a large water-works system. The contract price is which included as it did here, a light plant already established. The

cost is some less than Rensselaer’s system cost. But from the description of the contemplated system, however, we judge that Williamsport will get much less for its money than Rensselaer did. Their tank will hold only 60,000 gallons, while ours holds 110,000. Their tank pressure is to be 45 lbs., or 15 on a less than ours, and they have only 35 fine hydrants, where we have over 60. It is to be presumed that their mileage of mains is also much less. The Seckner Construction company has the contract. That company was among the bidders for Rensselaer’s system. After the circus has passed by then you hear of the wild beasts that broke out. At Rensselaer, Goodland and other places we hear, of the “tiger” getting out among the young lambs and not a few old bucks, and taking a good share of their fleece with them. As many circuses that have been .through this country, and as many times as people have been warned of the slim chances of a man running another’s game it does seem that little sympathy should be bestowupon those who lose their pile at such places.—Wolcott Enterprise.